National Security Agency

National Security Agency i nyhetene

• 2006-01-03: (democracynow.org) National Security Agency Whistleblower Warns Domestic Spying Program Is Sign the U.S. is Decaying Into a “Police State” +
  • "Former NSA intelligence agent Russell Tice condemns reports that the Agency has been engaged in eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants. Tice has volunteered to testify before Congress about illegal black ops programs at the NSA. Tice said, “The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a police state." [includes rush transcript]"
• 2006-01-04: Secret Surveillance May Have Occurred Before Authorization
  • "During your appearance before the committee," she wrote, "you indicated that you had been operating since the September 11 attacks with an expansive view of your authorities with respect to the conduct of electronic surveillance." The letter, while redacted in parts concerned with surveillance, made clear that the agency was "forwarding" intercepts and other collected information to the FBI. Two sources familiar with the NSA program said Pelosi was directly referring to information collected without a warrant on U.S. citizens or residents.
• 2006-01-10: Senator Frank Church: The NSA could enable a dictator to impose total tyranny +
  • "BushCo is trying to bury the significance of their illegal spying, why aren’t the Democrats "screaming to the rafters"?"
• 2006-01-17: (nytimes.com) Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends +
  • "WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to check out thousands of tips a month."
  • "But virtually all of them, current and former officials say, led to dead ends or innocent Americans."
• 2006-01-17: Groups Sue to Stop Domestic Spying Program +
  • "The Center for Constitutional Rights is suing Bush, the head of the National Security Agency and the heads of the other major security agencies."

• 2006-05-13: US President George W Bush has used his weekly radio address to launch a strong defence of his administration's domestic surveillance programme.
  • "It follows claims the phone records of tens of millions of Americans are being collected by a US intelligence agency."
  • "Mr Bush stressed that all intelligence activities he authorised were "lawful" and "strictly target" al-Qaeda."
  • "A former director of the agency - Gen Michael Hayden - is now Mr Bush's nominee to become the next head of the CIA."

= NSA overvåkning av Internett

• 2006-04-06: AT&T Forwards ALL Internet Traffic Into NSA Says EFF
  • San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday filed the legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T. After asking EFF to hold back the documents so that it could review them, the Department of Justice consented to EFF's filing them under seal - a well-established procedure that prohibits public access and permits only the judge and the litigants to see the evidence.